Brad Pitt selling perfume? Truly, the end is near

1:31 AM,
Dec. 5, 2012

Written by

Gina Barreca
| McClatchy Newspapers

Forget the Mayan calendar: Brad Pitt's commercial for Chanel No. 5 is a sign of the impending apocalypse. Have you seen it? Pitt looks like Gen. George Custer right before his last stand.

Reportedly paid around $7 million to gaze into the camera and intone "every journey ends," "plans disappear" and "wherever I go, there you are," Pitt says the kind of things my father used to yell at us kids when we were annoying him on a long car ride.

My dad, of course, didn't sound like Hamlet saying these things and Pitt does, so that's part of the difference. ...